Undress Your Stress: 30 Curiously Fun Ways to Take Off Tension
By Lois Levy
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About this ebook
When is the last time you:
- Danced around your living room?
- Screamed at the top of your lungs?
- Bought a box of crayons for yourself?
- Took a field trip?
In quick, easy and not-necessarily-orthodox methods, Undress Your Stress will show you how to strip away stress and shed life's pressure.
Lois Levy
Lois Levy is a management development consultant who works extensively with corporate executives, teaching them how to create balance in their lives. This book offers the same successful techniques she uses in her nationwide consulting seminars.
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Undress Your Stress - Lois Levy
take off
the tension
Stress, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is a state of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium.
Originally, stress was a metallurgy term about the force one inanimate object exerted against another. Today, when we talk about stress we’re talking about people.
We are not designed physically to keep up with the technology we are smart enough to invent. Biologically, we are still quite primitive and our reactions to stressful situations are exactly the same as those of our original ancestors. Our bodies respond to stress by pumping adrenaline into our systems as a way to prepare for fight or flight.
Our muscles tense, we are ready to fight or flee for our very lives.
Unfortunately, that response was created for things like saber tooth tigers, not a slow ATM machine or the person with fifteen items in the twelve-item line. The physical response is designed to give us the best possible chance of survival in a dangerous situation. Fight or flight
was not intended as a response to the fax machine getting stuck. But, it’s the only physical response we have for stress and so instead of using it sparingly as our ancestors did, we find ourselves having small stress reactions all day long.
As technology continues to speed up our lives, we become more and more stressed because we are unable physically to go as fast as our machines would allow. Yet, we try and try to keep up, only to fall further behind, feeling more exhausted, and wondering what’s wrong with us.
There’s nothing wrong with us at all. We just aren’t equipped to keep up with the machines. And it’s time for us to stop trying.
We live in a nanosecond world and it’s taking a toll on our bodies and our minds. When adrenaline is constantly being pushed through our systems, we wind up on an endocrine seesaw. First we’re wired and then we crash. Each of us is going to have to take responsibility for finding slow
places for ourselves.
Sometimes I go to the bank and stand in line just to remind myself of what it used to be like before ATMs and drive-thrus. It can be very communal and quite soothing as I stand waiting for a teller. I chat with other people in line or daydream. When there was no alternative, the bank line was a little piece of time out. So was my car. So was an airplane. Not anymore. With car phones, cellular phones, data hook-ups, fax machines, voice mail, and email, we can now keep going one hundred miles an hour no matter where we are. Those uncontrollable minutes or hours of respite no longer exist. You have to make them.
You have to protect your mind and your body by finding places in your life to be old fashioned
and do things the old, slow way. Because our bodies can’t cope with what technology has given us, each of us will have to take a stand in our own way.
Try washing the dishes by hand with someone you like, while playing soft music in the background. Rake the leaves with a real rake and not one of those horrid leaf-blower things. Reconnect with the natural rhythm of your body and see how it quiets and rests your mind as well.
This book will teach you specific techniques that range from a few seconds to thirty minutes. Most will take you five minutes or less. These are simple ways to create a time out
for yourself during the day. The only real answer to the breakneck pace of life today is to slow down your own life. No one will do it for you and no one will help you do it. But you can do it for yourself. Since the technology is only going to get faster and it’s never going to be like the old
days, I share with you the things that can make a significant difference in your life. They are easy, quick, and don’t require a lot of heavy, fancy, or expensive equipment. Most of these techniques can be done anywhere, any time, wearing any